New Sublime Text update

I'm not a programmer, please forgive me, but I love using sublime as of writing tool for legislation and public policy in my work. The color coding system popular in programming, has been invaluable in drafting legislation.

The company behind Sublime really fascinates me.<p>Given how many developers I&#x27;ve seen use Sublime, in the modern age of social media I&#x27;m so surprised SublimeHQ is still invisible. They hardly do any marketing that I&#x27;ve seen online, no social media engagement, nothing. Not necessarily a bad thing, but Sublime just seemed -primed- to be that sort of company with a hyper-engaged user base.

loved my time with sublime, then atom crossed a line where, while not as good as sublime in some area, it got good in other areas... then... vscode came along and showed how snappy an electron app could be, but didn&#x27;t have a lot of stuff.... then bam, it opened up, and still not as many toys as Atom, and not quite as slick as sublime, it hits a bit of sweet spot somewhere in between.

I forget that not everyone is in the dev channel and was wondering why this was on the front page. There&#x27;s new dev&#x27;s every couple days. Didn&#x27;t realize there haven&#x27;t been a stable in a long time.

&gt; Themes may now be switched on the fly without artifacts<p>Excellent news.<p>Switching themes and seeing the UI barf is unsightly.

If the author of Sublime is reading this thread, please know that I love your work! I happily paid the $70 and use this as my primary editor (except when using vim when working over SSH).<p>I&#x27;d also like to see more activity on the Twitter account or just more engagement with the community. You&#x27;ve got a killer product :)

RANT: &quot;Ubuntu 64 bit - also available as a tarball for other Linux distributions.&quot;<p>Linux requires THREE files (.deb, .rpm and a .tar) I personally use OpenSUSE and can easily compile the software BUT you are not &quot;supporting&quot; Linux when you only support Ubuntu.

I was trying to choose a Mac text editor recently; got it down to Atom and Sublime, and then discovered that <i>both</i> of them do code folding wrong. They think it&#x27;s based on indentation, not syntax, so if you try to fold something like:<p><pre><code> if (something) { some code &#x2F;&#x2F;commented-out code more code } </code></pre> It folds everything from the opening bracket to the comment, then stops.<p>Both editors have had issues filed over this bug for years, which have been ignored. (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;atom&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3442" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;atom&#x2F;atom&#x2F;issues&#x2F;3442</a>, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SublimeTextIssues&#x2F;Core&#x2F;issues&#x2F;101" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SublimeTextIssues&#x2F;Core&#x2F;issues&#x2F;101</a>)<p>I eventually decided to go with Atom; it&#x27;s open-source, so I can at least aspire to fix the damn thing myself when I get annoyed enough.

I recently updated from Sublime Text 2 to ST3. One thing I loved about version 2 was that it was insanely fast. Version 3 is significantly slower. Can anyone point me to any resources that might help me determine why the slowdown?

Why is it so much faster than atom?

Regarding the comparisons with Atom, can I take the opportunity to ask if anyone from ST could expand on their answer here[0] as how they go about making a custom OpenGL interface?<p>Do they use GLEW? Skia? How do they ensure anti-aliasing is done right?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2822114" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2822114</a>

In case anyone was wondering, the new JavaScript syntax highlighter appears to understand ES6, but chokes on JSX. If you&#x27;re writing React, the Babel package is still a good idea.

Is there a roadmap anywhere? I bought ST2, and I think I&#x27;m going to need to pay again for ST3 when I decide to upgrade, but it&#x27;s still in beta and has been for over 3 years now. Would be nice to know when it will eventually be released.

I wonder what kind of release process this guy has as the dev version always lags behind stable - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sublimetext.com&#x2F;3dev" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sublimetext.com&#x2F;3dev</a>

Is it just me or did this break the python syntax highlighter for line continuations within strings? I had to install MagicPython to fix it.

Anyone know why this update changed highlighting for me?<p>Tomorrow Night Scheme, strings in double quotes are now gray instead of green?..

PSA: If you haven&#x27;t updated yet, I&#x27;d wait. The new version apparently broke syntax highlighting for many languages. Check out their support forum[1] - it&#x27;s causing ripples.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.sublimetext.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;technical-support" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;forum.sublimetext.com&#x2F;c&#x2F;technical-support</a>

Is sublime working on something big?

:( Python docstrings are no longer coloured as strings, but comments...

ST now supports async&#x2F;await keywords in python! yay!

It&#x27;s good to see more ST updates, but it&#x27;s sad that it feels like they&#x27;re only even bothering because of the popularity of Atom.

the 3.0 dev channel has been fairly active, 13 updates this year.

The only proprietary software that I use as a matter of choice is Microsoft products and VMWare products, For something as trivial as a text editor, I wouldn&#x27;t dare use something closed source, proprietary like this.